The ontario government sued for $600 million

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 06:27

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A class action of $ 600 million has been filed against the Ontario government for allegations of sexual abuse, physical and psychological perpetrated on young people 8 to 16 years of age who were confined to the “reformatory”. The acts complained of allegedly took place between 1931 and 1984.

The Toronto Star reported Monday that Kirk Keeping, that frequented his establishments, at the age of 15 years , filed a lawsuit last Friday at Thunder Bay, where the old man 64-year-old currently resides.

The “homes of recovery” were used by the government of Ontario to host the youth 8 to 16 years of age deemed incorrigible by the courts.

The prosecutor will ask for $ 500 million in damages for negligence, breach of fiduciary duties, as well as $ 100 million in damages and punitive damages.

“The training schools were found to have a toxic environment in which the degrading and humiliating treatment of children supported by the Crown was the norm, the abuse of physical, sexual and psychological prevalent there, and residents of the training schools were systematically deprived of their dignity and their fundamental rights”, one can read in the class action claim.

A total of 14 institutions have been named in the query, including the school of Bowmanville, where Keeping had been admitted in 1968. He indicated that he had been sent to Bowmanville to have been a bad boy because of the presence of a slingshot in his pocket.

The daily toronto has discovered that the ontario government had set secretly 220 lawsuits filed by former residents of a “house of recovery”.